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Google has recently confirmed it will be releasing one of its crown jewels – TensorFlow, a machine-learning system that is being utilised throughout Google’s line of products – for free under an open-source license. Continue reading >

Right from the onset of Triggar we knew that old faithful, MS SQL wasn’t up to the job. Sure it’s crazy fast and reliable and highly optimised but it just simple doesn’t scale. And that’s both technically scaling and price scaling. SQL is designed for the enterprise – for one heroically expensive machine that can never fail. And it does it well, but at a price. Continue reading >

Successful marketing is about having a one-to-one relationship with your customers, which means not only knowing what they might want, but also knowing when, where and how they might want it. Continue reading >

This week we headed over to London for the annual DataIQ Summit. Once again, DataIQ delivered an exceptional two day conference filled with thought-provoking presentations from some of the UK’s leading and most experienced practitioners. It was anything but ‘just another big data conference’.

Across every session, the likes of British Gas, NewsUK and Telegraph Media shared their real-life experiences of how they are approaching the new opportunities data presents and the challenges they face.

It is rare that you will hear a conversation about big data without Hadoop being mentioned somewhere; the two are almost synonymous. Since its early beginnings over ten years ago, MapReduce Hadoop has gradually become the go-to-solution for storing, managing and processing massively large data volumes. Yet despite its hype, adoption rates remain remarkably low according to the latest research from Gartner. Continue reading >

So the Tories are staying in government after winning with a majority even big data couldn’t predict. With significant advances in big data and analytics tools so widely available, many are questioning how the polls turned out so wrong. Here’s the top big data stories on the web this week… Continue reading >

Performing millions of address lookups every day for over 9,000 customers is no small feat. UK-based ecommerce company, Postcode Anywhere, is up for the challenge. In this webinar, CTO Jamie Turner dives into how they’ve managed it using Elasticsearch with Cassandra, Spark, Kafka in a .NET environment.

Big data is a fairly vague term, often used as shorthand for a broad church of emerging technologies aiming to derive insights from the ever-increasing amount of information we produce. Continue reading >

Do you ever get the feeling someone is watching you? You’re not being paranoid – the chances are they probably are! Thanks to big data and clever algorithms, retailers are watching your every mouse movement to accurately predict your behaviours, wants and needs. And they’re getting spookily good at it. Continue reading >